It's quite clear that fast food leads to obesity and insulin resistance – and just as Spurlock proved in his film, it doesn't take long. Granted, his experiment included eating three meals a day at McDonalds, but as demonstrated in one <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/01/22/fast-food-part-three.aspx">15-year long study</a>, eating fast food just <strong>twice a week</strong> can make you gain 10 pounds and double your risk of developing insulin resistance, compared to eating it less than once a week.
Junk food diets have also been recently <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/24/junk-food-diet-puts-children-at-higher-risk-of-allergies.aspx">linked to increased risk of allergies</a>.
The bottom line is that if you want to stay healthy, and keep your children healthy, you have to avoid fast food and other processed foods, and either you, another relative or friend, or someone you pay, has to spend some time in your kitchen, cooking from scratch.
Cooking for your children may actually have extremely far reaching benefits, because it is now well known that dietary changes can prompt epigenetic DNA changes that can be passed on to future generations. For instance, pregnant rats fed a fatty diet had daughters and granddaughters with a <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/11/rats-on-junk-food-pass-cancer-down-the-generations.aspx">greater risk of breast cancer</a>.
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